Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1901-1910; Land tenure -- Ireland
(2) Whenever the Executive Committee of the Privy Council in Ireland
certify to the Lord-Lieutenant that a police force, adequate for local
purposes, has been established in any area, then, subject to the
provisions of this Act, he shall within six months thereafter direct the
Royal Irish Constabulary to be withdrawn from the performance of regular
police duties in such area, and such order shall be forthwith carried into
effect.
(3) Upon any such withdrawal the Lord-Lieutenant shall order measures to
be taken for a proportionate reduction of the numbers of the Royal Irish
Constabulary, and such order shall be duly executed.
(4) Upon the Executive Committee of the Privy Council in Ireland
certifying to the Lord-Lieutenant that adequate local police forces have
been established in every part of Ireland, then subject to the provisions
of this Act, the Lord-Lieutenant shall within six months after such
certificate, order measures to be taken for causing the whole of the Royal
Irish Constabulary to cease to exist as a police force, and such order
shall be duly executed.
(5) Where the area in which a local police force is established is part of
the Dublin Metropolitan Police District, the foregoing regulations shall
apply to the Dublin Metropolitan Police in like manner as if that force
were the Royal Irish Constabulary.
PART II.--REGULATIONS AS TO GRATUITIES AND PENSIONS FOR THE ROYAL IRISH
CONSTABULARY AND DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE.
SEVENTH SCHEDULE: REGULATIONS AS TO HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATURE AND THE
MEMBERS THEREOF.
_Legislative Council._
(1) There shall be a separate register of electors of councillors of the
Legislative Council which shall be made, until otherwise provided by Irish
Act, in like manner as the Parliamentary register of electors.
(2) Where, for the election of Councillors, any counties are combined so
as to form one constituency, then until otherwise provided by Irish Act,
(_a_) The returning officer for the whole constituency shall be that
one of the returning officers for Parliamentary elections for those
counties to whom the writ is addressed, and the writ shall be
addressed to the returning officer for the constituency with the
largest population, according to the census of 1891.
(_b_) The returning officer shall have the same authority throughout
the whole constituency as a returning officer to a Parliamentary
election for a county has in the county.
(_c_) The registers of electors of each county shall jointly be the
register of electors for the constituency.
(_d_) For the purposes of this Schedule 'county' includes a county of
a city or town, and this Schedule, and the law relating to the
qualification of electors, shall apply, as if the county of a city or
town formed part of the county at large with which it is combined, and
the qualification in the county of a city or town shall be the same as
in such county at large.
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